Field and Forest 



DEVOTED TO 



GENERAL NATURAL HISTORY. 



Vol. I.— MARCH & APRIL. 1876.— Nos. 10 & 11. 



Entomological Gleanings in Southern Fields. 



As comparatively little is known of our Southern insert fauna, owing 

 to the limited number of observers in this most extensive field for en- 

 tomological research, we deem it important that any notes of interest 

 should be placed on record. We have therefore brought together a 

 few that have come under our notice, while Natural History Editor 

 of a Southern Agricultural magazine, for publication from time to time 

 as contributions to the entomology of the South. 



GoNiLOBA OLYNTHUS B and L. — Three nearly full-grown larvae of 

 this insedl were found on the foliage of Canna indica, or Indian Shot, 

 about the loth or 12th of June, in Charleston, and received a few 

 days later. They were at once placed in a breeding box and supplied 

 with tender leaves of the canna, which they devoured with avidity, 

 having first curled the leaf just enough to form a convenient hiding 

 place, although they do not confine themselves exclusively to it, for 

 more than once they were observed stretched out at full length on the 

 foliage, or on one of the sides of the box. 



When about to change to pups, which took place on the 19th and 

 20th, they fold the sides of the leaf closer together, fastening it with 

 silken threads in the same manner as many of the Toi'tricida;, and 

 cover its entire inner surface with a web of white silk, so fine that it 

 resembles a white powder. Two slight threads, or loops, one across 

 the thorax, and another at the end of the body to which the tail is 

 fastened, serve to keej) the pupae in place when the leaf is torn open. 



The butterflies came out June 26th, 27th and 2Sth, and in general 

 color and form resembje the skipper or Hesperian, though much 

 larger. We append the following description : 



